Crazy Socks & Writer's Block

I decided it's time to look back at 2013. It was, an interesting year. It kind of flat up sucked at times and was one of the hardest years yet. But there were good times. So I'm looking at the good times. January- Sammy and my two year anniversary. Became a primary teacher. Misty joined our family. February- Learned about college laundry. Valentines Day. Started loving poetry. Joined Campus Computers March- Hung out with Kelsey. Got really into writing. Sammy and I had a stomach bug together. Then had an awesome date night. April- Tried on wedding dresses. Went to my first bridal shower. May- Discovered blog friends are pretty awesome. Moved out of the dorm. Went to Bolder Boulder. June- Got Apple certified. Found a time capsule. Started really making friends at work. July- I proposed to Sammy. Started finally getting help for my anxiety. Went swimming. August- Sammy got his new job. We got engaged!  September- I discovered the amazingness that...

Sammy's been sending me pictures every day from Mexico and I just thought I'd share them here! It really looks like a different world down there and his stories are so interesting! And he's taken to speaking in Spanish a lot more, it's pretty cute but I'm so rusty from high school I have to really think about what he's saying. His relatives all say I look like a tele novella star. It's pretty cute, I just hope they don't mean I look like a giant dramatic drama queen ;) I wish I was down there right now and hope one day my motion sick anxious self will make it there! Especially since it's like seventy there and snowing here. Blech. Gas station. They are owned by the government and have attendants I wonder where they get the volcano meat from His mom's house growing up Mandatory food shot Downtown Backyard  The kitchen is outside  Sugarcane fields where his uncles work Grandma Castro Grandpa Castro Rive...

Hello Blog Friends : ) As I've mentioned, I'm getting married. And I'd like to send you all an invitation because I truly count you as my friends : ) So, head over to this website. www.wiechdoctor.net/sammyandkylee  Thank you! Love you!

Well, I just got a text saying that Sammy's plane landed in Texas. He's going to Mexico for two weeks to see family for Christmas. It's been a rough past few days and I'm pretty nervous about the next two weeks. But, I'm going to try to stop worrying about him dying and just hope he's having lots of fun. I'm a little sad because I don't get to spend Christmas with him, and I didn't get to see him last Christmas either. But it's all going to be ok. I tried to fit in his suitcase. Didn't work. We did a lot the last few days to make up for him leaving! We saw the Hobbit. I was dreading seeing it because I hated the first one. It was sooooo slow and there were no woman in it. And it was three hours!!!! But the second one is a WHOLE lot better. So I didn't mind sitting for the whole time. Plus, we got to the theater really early and while we were waiting to go in, we saw another room was playing the Divergent trailer. So naturally I went...

I hung out with my old roommates and all our friends from our floor a few weeks ago. I was really excited about it because I hadn't seen some of these people since May. I wasn't going in expecting anything super exciting. I knew it'd been awhile and it'd be a little awkward at first. I wasn't expecting to get blown off and feel like I was back in high school again. And I didn't expect to feel so sad. When I first got over and was hanging with my girl friends it was fun. We were doing hair and makeup and such. I missed getting ready and all dressed up sometimes and sharing hair and makeup tips. But after that, things went downhill. Lets just say, that a very skunky smell was involved.  I left feeling really upset and the more I think about it,  it's just sad. Everyone's stories involved drugs and lots of alcohol. Lots of random sex. And as much fun as they claimed it all was, they all seemed sad. There was something really missing. I didn't really not...

Sammy and I went out for a date night yesterday and it was AWESOME! We hit up Dave and Buster's. We were thinking about Boondocks, but then we were like, whoa. Dave and Buster's is for grown ups. It was so much fun! I forgot how fun it is to go out and do something new. Definitely going to work on doing that more. We played some basketball, Sammy beat me twice and I beat him twice. It was quite satisfying. When he was winning he kept shouting Lebron, Lebron! So naturally I did that when I was winning. Sammy totally kicked my butt at the racing games though. There was this really fun one where the car actually moved. His car stayed still the whole time and mine was bumping all over the place. I freaked out when we were starting because I forgot which one was the gas pedal and you had to hit the gas to select options and such. We also did a motorcycle one and Sammy rocked that one as well. Then air hockey. I love me some air hockey. I won ;) We played a co player shooting g...

Once again, it's finals week. Time to study and stress about finals. Wrong. At least for me. I just realized something this last week, when it's finals time instead of stressing out about my finals, I find something else to stress about. Last year, I was convinced that I was going to move to Utah. I saw how much rent for apartments was out there and I was like, I'm in! I researched all the schools, how to transfer, jobs in the area, started filling out applications. I'd even found an apartment! And then, finals week went away and the planning slowed down a little bit. I eventually decided moving to Utah wasn't for me because I love my degree program at my school, and my scholarship program. So, I'm still here. I also compared phone plans between companies. That was fun. Not really it was depressing. Last Spring I started getting really into emergency preparedness. I researched food dehydrators, ways to grow food in an apartment, made a list of all the things t...

. At work, I added Britney Spears and Justin Beiber as influences on my coworkers pandora station. When he came into work, he didn't switch it to that station like he usually does. So, I had to sneakily persuade him to change it, saying I was in the mood for something different. Phew almost did a different station though, so I kept talking. Then, he finally clicked on his station and Hit Me Baby One More Time started blasting. We both laughed hard but he thought it was just some fluke, and skipped to the next song. When he was talking to customers I would keep skipping songs until another pop one came on. He never figured it out that if added them, and I couldn't stop laughing at my genius so I just told him what I'd done. He said that that was very well played. I had an essay due for economics. I was doing a book review of a book, crazy I know, and in the book the author briefly mentioned the economics of prostitutes. My professor always uses prostitutes as examples fo...

Well. November is over which means NaNoWriMo is as well. I didn't make my goal. After beating myself up for a bit, I took a step back. I wrote 24,488 words. Yeah, it's not even half of what I was aiming for. But it's 24,488 more words than I had at the beginning of the month. I'm proud of that. Schools almost over as well so hopefully I'll be able to get to that 50,000 before the end of this month. I'm still glad I did NaNoWriMo and I'll definitely do it again. I know I can still be an author. Right now I'm a want to be author, full time student, part time worker, and planning a wedding. Getting that much done is pretty impressive I think. I'm going to be an author one day and because of NaNoWriMo I'm one step closer. Lets do this December!

Was Thanksgiving! Which was awesome. I saw Catching Fire twice. I highly recommend it. The Divergent trailer plays before it as well which is AWESOME. We were running a little late the first time to the movies and I was worried we were going to miss the preview haha! I discovered Walmart is a great place to buy books. I scored while Black Friday shopping. I got five seasons of House, two of the Office, and some other movies. And pretty paper for my wedding flowers. Had lots of snuggle time. Had lots of nap time. Did no homework. Wrote about, 300 words. Took a break. Got to spend lots of time with my family. Started to figure out how to style this new hair. Discovered my dog is a very jealous creature. Watched the dog show. Taught a primary lesson with my garden gnome and pop tops.

I'm so thankful for my sweet Grandma. She's been such an amazing help these last few months. She's been reassuring. She always knows when to send me a sweet text or to see how I'm doing. She gives the best advice. She always reads my blog. She sends me sweet cards full of advice. She's always giving, giving, giving and never looks back. She is such an example of a godly woman and I hope to be somewhere near as awesome as she is one day. I love you Grandma so so so very much : ) And I love this picture of us because it's candid and yeah : )

Yesterday, I was just done. I didn't want to deal with this life thing anymore. Nothing serious was going on, I had just had really bad anxiety the day before and then all day that day and I was just tired and done. I pushed myself to get somethings done, and then decided I wanted to organize some drawers in my room. This is a very rare occurrence hahaha! As I started cleaning, I started getting more and more overwhelmed. I just wanted to throw things out, but I kept finding things I needed or wasn't sure what to do with. (What are you supposed to do with the monthly letters from your retirement fund?) I'm not digging the whole grown up papers thing. So, my already bad anxiety went up a level. But then I started finding things. First, it was my senior year yearbook. Even though it wasn't that long ago since I made it, I wanted to look through it. Then, I found a hand out on different relaxation techniques that had been handed to me a few months ago but I'd never r...